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Trip Reports Woody Head, Clarence coast Transparent Sea meeting @ Broomes Head | Transparent Sea meeting @ Broomes Head | | Print | |
| Written by Josh | |
| Tuesday, 06 October 2009 | |
 Rasta, group leader of Transparent Sea With a sizable sea swell of around 7' it was surprisingly pleasant out on the water off Broome's Head today, due mainly to light winds. Today's plan was to meet up with the Transparent Sea adventurers out on the water, partly to catch up with the guys and see how they were all fairing, as well as to catch up with the boats to see how they were fairing. I'd serviced the boats a few days before the guys left but they'd all done well over 100km on the water by the time they reached me, so I was curious to see how everything was holding together. To see them in use on the water might also give me a different perspective to that in the workshop.  Well, hello dinner! I was on the water hours in advance, well before the crew were scheduled to arrive and this was of course no coincidence. My secondary objective was to try and prove the Mouri fishing calendar wrong (today was supposed to fish poorly) and whilst watching a pair of active humpback whales through my binoculars I fluked doing exactly that. Drifting a squidgy flickbait tied to 10lb mono (using the Nitro Spin & Team Daiwa 2500 reel) proved too much temptation for what turned out to be a hearty snapper. It gave me a hell of a fight on light gear and when inspecting the lure upon retrieve I considered myself rather fortunate to have landed it successfully. And just as soon as I'd cleaned & bagged the fish, Rasta and his entourage of intrepid Adventure Islanders appeared on the horizon. They'd sailed some 28km (as the crow flies) though the first half of the leg consisted of tacking and or pedalling into a light southerly.  Sailing in to land at Broome's Head Smiles beamed from salt-sprayed faces as they each relayed their individual state of plays. There's been highs (amazing speeds reported) and a few lows as well (Chris had a visitor tail his kayak in the form of a 12' tiger shark) but for the most part everything had been going really well. Dave was pleased to report that the Islands had been performing nicely. He had managed to break a rudder pin somehow (as they are designed to under excess stress) but is of course armed with spares and the know-how to replace them on the water. Aside from that they'd had problems with a couple of wheels, one of the mirage drive chains needed a bit of a tighten, but that was it. Considering how new they all were to sailing Hobie trimarans (not much experience outside of several weeks training & prep), I thought they were doing really well. They'd certainly timed their arrival well, coming in on modest surf at the front of the caravan park just a short while before a thunderous hail storm passed over.
 Where: Broomes Head, Clarence Coast, NSW |
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